Unscrupulous BBC must cancel broadcast, says LSE chairman

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Sir Peter Sutherland, the chairman of the London School of Economics, today
redoubled his demands that the BBC should cancel tonight’s broadcast of a Panorama
programme filmed undercover in North Korea.

The reporter John Sweeney and his camera crew used a 2012 study trip by ten
LSE students organised by his new wife, Tomiko Sweeney, as a way of
infiltrating North Korea to carry out secret filming.

“What has happened here is that the BBC unscrupulously used a number of
students as human cover for a filming operation without fully informing all
of them as to what was happening,” said